The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 2, 1930, Page 3

_D! AILY W ORKE ER, vEW YORK, TU ESD AY, SEPTEMBER 2 » 193 WE TtrTtrEeE RS 3 000 AT UNION EUROPE WORK =-_ Fe acy rs ma SHOP Ss 4 _ SQUARE W MEETING HIT KKK, ATTACK K' Ea EE STIFFEN FIGHT TO GET MINERS INTO MO&SWU Jubilation Jessup, Pa. | | | |laily Worker, jlear Editor: || Three weeks ago I got a job thru || friend of mine, working for the Jarrett Coal Co,, Winto Borough, | ssup. In this mine the worke 1ost of them make less than jay; maybe someone may think th n exaggeration but I’m ready to] Rove it any day. | Average $18 A Week. | For example one Polish miner hhade $18 in two weeks and my min- r and I made $3.45 a day each, orking from 8 to 9 hours a day ome miners work even on Sunday nd rock without pay. One day after two days of strug- 10 a day organizer, with paid e enses came to the mine shafe. F’ e asked me and another miner pi if veryone had enough money to pay or their initiation fees. Secondly, y want a union, you are the gu: hat must get together and once you| ve organized then you call me and| ou will get a charter for your lo- al, but anyhow I will try to help ou as much as I can,” So the only ords he could say to try to get us ll together was “hey, if you want! local union, all of you come to the reeting tomorrow at 7 p. m.” “Organizer” Interested in Only, The nex’ day 12 men out of 30 or Sues rs remained at. work because lots f them had no money to pay for] ees and lots were convinced that | heir fascist organizers were not hey were aware of the facts and| actics of the U.M.W, of A, official So this 20 yea i yanizer went away ould be done unless we organized purselves first. This meant once we prganized oui-elves then they are eady to come to collect the dues |hruought the checkoff with the con- ; ent of the bosses. Conditions Worsen. Fellow miners, remember nur leaders renewed the contract ‘specially the faker John Lewis, alking about better wages, lots of srosperity and harmony between he bosses and us. Yes, prosperity for our leaders and the operators and s,arvation for the miners. Into the M. O. S. W. U. We all know that in lots of mines we don’t get paid for dead work, not paid at all for rock, and we get little more than nothing when we work on foal like the Barrett Coal Co., Inc., fnines. Fellow miners, it’s about time we must realize that the U.M.W.A, is not a workers’ union but is a com- pany union, and John L. Lewis and Jo, are not our leaders but our be- trayers, and traitors to our cause. For this reason I urge you to re- fuse to feed the Lewis, & Co. ma- fhine by refusing in masses to pay the dues to our betrayers and by joining the Mine, Oil and Smelters ‘Workers Union, the only organiza- ying nothing] \by a bunch of betrayers. Will say more of the fascist lead- ers of the UMWA. | —A Militant Miner of Jessup. REFORMIST TALK | SPREAD ABROAD “We're All Socialists” Says Nick Butler (Continued From Page One.) “did not deal workers,” but he urges that they boss Elements Show, al le with Geary—board member of| ris district—we obtained an or- anizer from Garbondale, Pa. This e said, “Listen, fellows, if you real- | eally willing to organize them, as | tion controlled by ourselves and not | squarely with the} Speedup At Buffalo, N. Y. Daily Worker: Dear Editor:—I am a_ slowly starving slave of the auto industry (Pierce Arrow, of Buffalo). Are we being robbed? That's a very mild way of putting it, These snaky, | slimy eels along with the whole | capitalist outfit of skunks (not meaning to insult the skunk ani- mal), who I would rather kiss than to bow to these grafters, 2 so low their bellies sweep the dirty streets. Just a case of (when filth meets filth.) Not being satisfied with cutting {our pay regularly or giving us a week’s work then shutting us out |for a couple of weeks, they simpiy |push us at a rate that’s unbear able. Force us to get the work out, |then claim we went over the limit lin the price they set. The result another operation on our pay cheek. | They have a fake Benefit Associa- |tion, 80 cents a month. Men were | dropping out of it, so they told us |they voted to dissolve it and we would get our money back. That’s ; jover two months ago and we are} still paying. It must be a bluff encouraging | us to continue being gypped in the} hopes we are soon to have our | Jobless War Vet Wil | Ca Detroit, Mich and Ex-Soldiers! working at the | To all Worke: | In 1917, I Hudson Motor Co. | first draft some of those big sharks |ecame along and spoke to all the | young workers to join the army and \ “protect your flag and country.” | At that particular time I didn’t 5 came to the meeting and the oth-| know any better, but I really do/ flag that our comrades in the Soviet | now. Just before they put me in that bloodbath they offered us thing. I spent two years army. in the Crippled for Life Today I am crippled for life. Those big bloodsuekers got every | drop of red blood I had in my body, | We pour our blood by the river: for these gangsters, gamblers. To- day we have thousands and thous- ands of crippled soldiers who don’t | get a meal a day. But today we know different. | when | | Wage-Earning Artists Corona, L. 1. Daily Worke: Comrade:—Being an artist and member of the wage-earning class, |I would like to tell you that the condition of workers possessing creative gifts is as bad as the con- ditions of other workers. When I attended the National Academy of Design as a student of the fine arts, I had dreams of producing beauti- ful works with the gift given me. I soon found, however, that one must work, and so this gift is | squandered to keep my body alive. There might be consolation how- ever, if one was only given a fair chance. But consider the conditions to be endured. I obtained a position New Rockford, N. D. To Daily Worker: The IWW are here, trying to or- ganize the harvest hands, To or- ganize the workers is all right, but how do the officials of the I.W.W. do this? They f.llow their old tactics of regarding all farmers as one reac- tionary mass, as capitalists, without recognizing the obvious fact that there are rich farmers, middle farm- ers and poor farmers, and that the workers must make an alliance with the poor farmers, in order to fight capitalism effectively. The I.W.W. officials gloat over the fact that the small farmer is going broke, but what do they offer this poor farrier? Nothing! Such a short-sighted policy shows the benkrv, ‘cy of the ILW.W. and their influence is, as a result, ever van- ishing in the harvest fields, | to side-track the revolutionary movement into harmless “socialist” channels, Nobody—But Workers—Likes Us. So the bad smell spread. Lore criticizes the “socialists” but helps them fight the Communists. The “socialists” criticize the A. F. of 1. but helps it fight the Communists. The A. F. of L. once in a while criticizes the capitalists, but helps them, even encourages them, to fight the Communists. The capital- ists say they like the “socialists” Starvation Wages, Killing Just before the} Poor Farmer Scores IWW; Harvest Hands to Join AWIL tH TARD COAL MINERS’ CONDITIONS WORSEN Pierce Arrow] ) hard-earned dough refunded. | Please put this in print, I want | to help the workers in dusting off | their brains and open their eyes. | | But the workers ought not need | much encouragement to see the real | state of affairs. I have been telling jfriends of mine about Communist views and they listen with all ears. I have only been reading the Daily Worker a month but I can no longer stomach the idiotic lies of the scurvy blood stained sheets put out by the 59 rulers of the US Sas I can’t put up such a strong argument if questions are put to me, but have managed to answer most of them satisfactorily. I am jgoing to campaign my crowd for ‘subscribers soon, so can you please ;send me Daily Worker Subscrip- tion Blanks. Don’t be stingy with them, the more I have the harder Tl work. I always pass my old} papers on for, some one else to read. Every subscriber ought to do that,the more they read the more they want. | Also inclosed is a dollar for renew- | ing my own guarantee of reading the truth for 2 more months, as my month subscription will soon run out. | Hoping I see this in print, I am an Ex-Service man. —C. H. D. |a | 1 Fight For Workers’ use , Today I have been out of work | for 7 months. Does Uncle Sam look jafter me? He does like hell. And there are hundreds of thousands | who are the same because they get the same medicine. We Fight Under Red Flag But today we will sing a different | song and carry a different flag, the Union carry, a red flag. We know real well how to use| rifles, hand grenades, gas bombs] and we are going to use it on Mr.| Hoover and his gamblers. We will not use them on our brother work- | ingmen. I spent six months in the offic- er’s training camp at Camp Custer, ichigan, Company A, 10th In- fantry. Now I can be an instructor for the Red Army ‘and am always ready. T will fight and die under the red flag. —EX-SOLDIER Get Miserable Wages on an exclusive Madison Avenue shop to paint on lamp shades. These lamp shades were sold from $150 to $200 a piece, and sold in pairs. It took me nearly three days | to paint one, as I had also to draw the figures before painting. Work- ing from 8:30 a. m. to 5:30 p, m. I received for this work $18 per week, I applied at another establish- ment, this time to paint chiffon scarfs. Painting approximately four scarfs an hour and toiling from 8:30 a. m., to 5:15 p. m. with three- quarters of an hour lunch, I was given 10 dollars a week. Another place offered 8 dollars for similar batik work, M. All agricultural workers, oll mem- bers of the IW.W., should join the Agricultural Workers Industrial League, which is affiliated with the T.U.U.L. All poor farmers should join the United Farmers League. These organizations really fight for the workers and the poor farmers. The I.W.W. is a standpat organization, without a realistic program of action. The narrow and reactionary pvlicy of the I,W.W. officialdom is further clearly illustrate’ by an editorial in Industrial Joli darity of August 26, wherein objection is made to the Communist slogan of a Workers’ and Farmc’s’ Government. The of- ficials of the I.W.W. don’t know how to fight the capitalists, they refuse to take into account the facts of life, They constitute today a futile, hopeless, ineffectual sect. —POOR FARMER. nists only wouldn’t fight, then the capitalists might look kindly upon them. The Communist Party pledges the working class to keep on fighting the whole tribe of cap- italists and their “socialist” tools. It is the Communist Party, the Party of the revolutionary workers, against the field. Vote Communist! Demand the release of Fos- ter, Minor, Amter and Ray- mond, in prison for fighting | Building | fight against the unemployed and because the “socialist” party is against socialism, and oppose the Communist Party because it not in only “believes” in socialism, but gocs) Tammany grafters go free— for unemployment insurance. keep right on doing it, especially in the south. With all this display of disguised ‘socialists,” there came a welcom- | ing speech to these social fascists by the intellectual spokesman for jie Dr. Nicolas Murray Butler, president of Columbia University. “We're All Socialists, Now!” the old skinflint, Then he made a long wandering talk trying to claim that what is called “capitalism” isn’t But the meat of what he said was that the “rich” must fight Commu- jnism by adopting the “social mind- beetle) In short, he, a hide-bound old re- publican reactionary, showed that) blackjacks against the rising tide of workers’ revelytion fail to ston | it, the rich shovld put the “social. | out to fight for it, | the Unemployed Delegation is in ‘support to capitalism by the fake hard-boiled republican party cap- \ “We're all socialists now,” said capitalism at all, but “liberalism.” ‘edness |of the socialist point of he realizes that when clubs and) ~ jict” fakers into power in an attempt| Butler said that if the Commu: | prison—vote Communist! Pledge aut to C.P. Campaign (Continued from Page One) | noon, singing and cheering. Then followed the Laundry and Cleaners Industrial League, the Workers Ex- Servicemen’s League, the Marine Workers Industrial Union, the Trade Workers, the Food Workers Industrial Union. Five platforms were put up in order for the speakers to reach the entire crowd. Some of the speakers addressed the workers from the top of trucks, bearing huge banners and | placards demanding the passage of |the Unemployment Insurance Bill; calling on the workers to join the T.U.U.L., and to “Organize and Strike Against Wage Cuts “Defeat the Boss Program.” “In order to defeat the program of the bosses,”. read the A. U.‘U. L. resolution which was unanimous- ly adopted amid enthusiastic shouts and eheers, “to make the workers pay the cost of the crisis, it is nec-! essary to organize united front shop { committees and Unemployed Coun- cils irrespective of race, creed, color or sex, composed of the un- organized workers, the rank and file of the A. F. of L., and the members of the revolutionary trade unions to jointly fight against wage cuts, speed-up; for the seven-hour | day and five day-week, and for un- employment insurance.” The resolution exposed the Tam- many grafting machine, which jailed the heroic fighters of March 6th, Foster, Minor, Amter and Ray- mond, and demanded their release. It pointed out that all three boss parties, the Democratic, Republican id “Socialist” were united in the the demand for unemployment in- surance, The 25,000 workers assembled in Union Square pledged themseles to carry on the fight for “the Unem- ployed Insurance Bill presented by | the Communist Party to the Senate and House of Representatives, and to endorse the candidates of the} Communist Party, as one of the | means by which the workers will be protected against unemployment, | sickness and old age.” Special City Demand. A special demand was made that | the city government of New York immediately turn over $56,0000,000 that is now in its treasury, for] emergency unemployment relief. In order to press and fight for these immediate demands on the New York City government a com-| mittee was elected by the workers, | consisting of Foster, Minor, Amter | and Raymond to present them to the | Boards of Estimates at the earliest ; possible moment. Stressing the fact that as un-| employment grows by leaps and bounds, that the bosses further | their wage-cutting campaign by | pitching unemployed against em-| ployed workers, Jack Johnstone, | secretary of the Trade Union Unity | Council of New York, pointed out | the necessity of all workers being | mobilized for the campaign of “or- | ganization and strike against wage | cuts.” He read a cable addressed | to the Fifth World Congress of the | Red International of Labor Unions, which is now in session in Moscow, in the “name of 25,000 workers demonstrating in Unioon Square “Jobless Day, Sept. 1.” The work- ers unanimously adopted the cable of greetings to the R. I. L. U.|} stating that the workers assembled | “pledge to struggle against im-| perial war and defense of the! Soviet Union. As part of the strug- gle against unemployment,” the j cable went on to state, “as well as the fight against wage cuts, speed up and for the seven hour day, } five-day week, and for unemploy- ment insurance, we condemn the class peace policy of the fascist leadership of the A. F. of L., and the Amsterdam International, and | hail the Red International of Labor | Unions on the tenth anniversary, | as the leader of the world revolu- tionary trade union movement.” Levin Opens Demonstration. Comrade E. Levin, business man- ager of the Daily Worker, opened the demonstration forom the central stand. At the same time, other} speakers addressed the workers | from the other platforms. “Through the International La- | bor Defense,” said Sam Darey, one | of the speakers, “the jobless lead- | ers in jail have sent this message to be delivered to this mass of work- ers. Foster, Minor, Amter and Ray- | mond say: “Organize and fight; | spread the struggle for the Unem- | ployment Insurance Bill and Strike | consisting of Foster, Minor, Am-| Against Wage Cuts!” | Many A.F.L. Members Present. | Jack Johnston asked all the un- | employed workers present to raise up their hands. About three-quar- ters of the workers present raised their hands. “How many belong to the A. F. of L.?” asked Johnston? Many workers raised their hands “I see we have a good part of the rank and file of A. F. of L. work- ers here,” declared Johnston, i All the speakers said that the workers must support the election | campaign of the Communist Party FARM IN THE PINES $18. Aiming and Fishing. |! M. OBERKIRCH Bor 78 KINGSTON. N.Y | | Insurance Bill, | and take part in the demonstration. Denounce Raid on WIR Children’s Camp Workers throughout Europe have held protest demonstrations against the Ku Klux Klan and American Le- gion attack on the Workei Inter- national Relief Children’s Camp, at Santo Domingo RN Are Starvin ‘erman Milita Van Etten, Y., information| | —— ” reaching the United States indi-|, SANTO DOMINGO CITY. Says “Socialis cates. Thousands of Negro sugar worke nn I : Fifteen thousand Berlin workers |#¥@ starving to death in the Domin-| The Fascist can Republic. Many who have been on strike against intolerable con- ditions in Central La Romana, the! demonstrated in the Wedding dis- trict under the direction of the Ger- man W.LR. the or ascist a rist Imperialist “Tool: ts” Aid Indian Discon Regime, For Own Pury pitalists are ¥ dict rship. ERS ENTE RNATIONAL SS PRESS ADMITS THERE IS DEEP peal ta res INREST AMONG PERUVIAN PEASANTS Use tent pose Rut Their Conditions in the The French W.LR. held a demon- | Sout portion of the Domintan| mo, are making full use of the) Keen Growine Worse stration in Paris, while the workers | Republic, are being ousted trom) | 'Y % bie : eset of Stockholm and Amsterdam also|their homes, which is company |S0cial demo tecici Bice eal aa ning unrest joined in the manifestation of in-|Property. Most of the companies] to organize a Powis aie ternational solidarity. are controlled by the National City|the workers. A HEE Dy ' dis Telegrams of protest were sent | Bank of New York. 3 jthe New York Tribune | content of the to Governor Roosevelt at Albany, he great majority of the sugar | clearly brings out fact that the) 9) mnilitarist cliques succeeded N. Y., by the Freethinkers Society orkers are unemployed oecause}German capi‘ lists look upon the ovarthtowine each other for of Germany, German W.LR., French | ‘#¢ sugar season is over and be-| social democratic leadership as one |) natit of t 1 War Workers Orphan’ Home, |°#¥se of the huge over-production | of their best bulwarks against the | )°0e 0" OU AnietG Avenir Sociale, Paris; and other or- |" Sugat all over the world. As the| growing revolutionary temper of ist ganizations. «rvesting of the next crop of | the German mai John Elliott, Sai ni sugar does not begin until late in| in his dispateh from Berlin (Aug | New Yor! hi | December, and w;' continue only to|90) writes len 7 : and to develop greater and greater May, the prospects of the Negro) «General Hans von Sceckt, to ao op resistance against the brutality of| Workers here is indeed black. | wi ig ability the high] agrari h the bosses against the militant em-| All the big sugar companies have iency of the Reichs-| tic sw and’ the ployed and uneinployed workers. nrounced that when harvesting | ;, red it would be necess: e creole, mic la Among the hundreds of banners | does start ‘all employees will be | sooner or later to govern with socia' <plains and placards, the following were obliged to accept the lowest wages | gemocracy, and Join the Com- wes shot last spring. Hundreds of working women and children gath- ered in front of the truck. They were urged to come to Union Square other parties have nothi The Communist Party fought for Sacco-Vanzetti—the Commu: | for nist Party demonstrates on Sacco- Vanzetti day—vote Communist! their success an his hope that Austria in the same state as B and expressed his |congratulated the Austrian hos: ing to fight i dians are w r 1, are throwing them in jail. When} Austria to make friendship with! ander its own banner of th | munist Party,” went all around the | their terms are up, they are re-|the Austrian fas The Bul-| and sickle. Bronx and stopped in front of Mil-| arrested and given another j arian government is fully under| ee lers Market, where Steve Katovis | term, |the influence of the fascists and] Demand “the release | ng to s He ter, Minor, mond, in prison for for unemployment ins' d id expres will soon be ulgaria. Announces: Five-Year Plan Tour TO THE SOVIET UNION An extensive trip across the Soviet Land and a real study of the Five- Year Plan in action. 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MAURETANIA October 25 EUROPA S.S. n an end the most prominent slogans, epito- |" record. tility to any coup d'etat.” Thee chain solutions which bring mizing the demands of the thou-| me : Romane hola ne He also points out the fact that | seded reform that nds of workers who had gathered |Conditions are the worst on the! , a aeeo CARGEAREa TEE 7 at f “trike |island, is owned by the South Porto |‘t Was through the instrumentality at the demons Strike | rican Compary, in American sugar |°t the social democratic le that ‘ ara LSC genase oration. The South Porto une “inenoe capitalists were able tp /zo0led on \ Social Insurance! or. Ox Rican Company dominates a ter- put over the Young Plan, and its|for their own purposes Vages!” “Demand the Release cf Jompa es ne ane lane intepast at th ate tne sees Sila as and Ray-|Titory 40 miles square. It owns all | D&ck-br med aplednewase Oleic eens mond!” Two big trucks were cov- ie palreedss the police, schools a WM TMHnInGs The Matoriort ne lenis havelnobiyeu: thei own tiBhe. ered with cartoons iy ieee a ae suger grinding milla, Its| ine “that but for the socialists | ing orgar ng enough Among them were the following!| “|,” . ; |the Young Plan would never have | tally the workers fy mn ;: ‘ | Even during thé harvest the ; * 3 ve! F id J : a:) var’ ss. pasants again: imperialists, eae cep pi tnce awa) Negro workers are barely able to|?«en carried” \ailtatists, landloeds anil ca Defend the Soviet Union!” “Masses pane ane Habe They pee | With the strengthening of the re- Revolt in Latin America; we must |rounded by the company po il Austrian, Bulgarian | volutionary labor and peasant move- support thelr struggle.” Among | “2°, beat them brutally. Jue to |ments and the growth of the Com- SOOT Ce ate tie A mum |the drop of suzar production depor-| Fascists Collaborate) minis: Party, the teeming millions ee een ene on seclan |tations are taking place, National “ aetia [ition abaannice. nidk of Pec ing: “Down with Hutcheson and /Guatd Patrols are rounding up| VIENNA (By Mail).— Several] gione, but of all Latin American he awa a ' Utcheson and | Negro workers from Haiti, Jamaica|weeks ago a mecting took plac countries, will cease to be pawns in Se and the British West Indies, on the|at Donawitz, of the Austrian fas-|the hands of rival imperialist and A truck of the Food Workers In- | he hands o 1 imperialist a wh ai Br Pheho : pretext that they have not paid the jcists. At tnis meeting there ap- militarist factions but, fully consci- dustrial Union, Bronx Section, with | annual $3 tax required from tham if|peared a Bulgarian engineer, who| ous of its historical mussion, will suas : Mey sabe ea aus el they entered the country as third|declared, he is a fraternal Jelegate| fight under the leadership of the ‘L., Fight for the Unemployment | ciass passengers on steamers, and|from Bulgaria and he has :ome to| Reanicers etuna tet ani oatiteresta and e hammer of Fos- Amter and KRay- fighting urance. York eals, R. (five